;-p > In a message dated 08/08/2000 8:35:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] > writes: > > << > Pound's appeals to his family lineage may be a fallacious "argumentative > device". But appeals to lineage are also an ancient way of establishing > one's bona fides--here in the West. >> > > > but not in the East, where such ancestor worship is practically unheard of.... > > jb... > >